First Trailer For Sundance Hit Blue Valentine, Film Gets Slapped With NC-17 Rating

If you watch the new trailer for the Ryan Gosling-Michelle Williams film Blue Valentine posted below, you'll see it as a nice, sweet, gentle romantic comedy. You have Gosling playing the ukulele and singing in a strange voice while Williams dances around in a red top and a black skirt. Little do you know, it's apparently a hardcore affair - at least, according to the MPAA.

Deadline reports that the ratings board has slapped the film with a deadly NC-17, a rating that will undoubtedly keep it out of mainstream theaters unless changed. According to the site, the harsh rating comes from one particular scene in which Gosling and Williams spend a night away at a hotel to repair their relationship. What's bizarre is that while the scene is said to make you squirm, there's no violence and barely any nudity. The film has been garnering a great deal of buzz and is thought to be a contender come Oscar season, but an NC-17 could effectively kill that. There is no word yet as to how the studio, The Weinstein Company, will react to the rating.